1. Top Tech Tools for Teachers
Best of FFLA & SCOLT
ACTFL 2011-
Denver, Colorado
Michelle Olah
Seminole Co. Public Schools, Florida
World Languages Technology Consultants
www.wltechconsultants.com

2. Easily access websites from
your smart phone!

3. http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

4. Using technology in the World
Languages classroom:
• Enhances student creativity
• Allows students to communicate outside of
the classroom
• Provides opportunities for student
collaboration
• Requires students to think critically to
evaluate resources
• Engages and motivates students

5. Don’t start from scratch…

6. Start with a “classic”
that you love…

7. Then “re-design” it into
something exciting and new!

8. Some of our “revamped”
Classics

9. Top tool to wake up the class!
Also known as “Texting for good not evil”
1. If you can text, you can wiffiti!
2. Send a text message to: 87884
3. At the beginning of your message type
@wif85540 and then your answer.

11. Biographies

13. Family Speaking Projects
Web tool: Voicethread
Beginning German -
http://ed.voicethread.com/?#u86836
Spanish Collaborative Family Project
http://ed.voicethread.com/share/235029/
Intermediate Spanish – Grammar focus
http://ed.voicethread.com/share/8974/

14. Speaking/Vocabulary Practice

15. About Me Projects Or
Describing self
Voki Speaking Avatar

16. Listening and Speaking
practice:

17. Writing Projects
Web tool: Storybird
http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/
Storybirds are short, visual
stories that you make with
family and friends to share
and (soon) print.

19. Photo Stories: Mixbook
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/los-cahorritos-2831166
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/all/libro-digital-4528131
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/mi-amigo-y-yo-4793813
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/spanish-class-project-3976588
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/pablo-neruda-898736

20. Wallwisher
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/updatingwithtech

21. Examples of wallwishers…

22. Go Animate/Toon Doo
http://goanimate.com/movie/0FZ_aoErA988/1

23. Culture
(not from the text book)

24. Tag Galaxy

25. A little bit of Culture Every
Day!
Travel Videos - Geobeats –
2 Minute Travel Videos (English)
Movie Theaters (vocabulary, money, time, dates)
•Cinéma Gaumont Champs-Elysées Marignan-Paris
•Cinemark – México
Newspaper headlines from around the World
YouTube, TeacherTube, SchoolTube

26. A PORTFOLIO TO SHOWCASE STUDENT
WORK
Blog, wiki, ning, or
website

27. We are already 10 years into
the 21 st Century
The “Future” is NOW

28. What can you do TODAY to help
prepare your students for
TOMORROW?

29. One WOW and one
WONDER…

30. Michelle Olah
World Languages Technology Consultants
www.wltechconsultants.com